QAnon in the House of Representatives

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MR. SPEAKER, PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 1164, I CALL UP HOUSE RESOLUTION 1154, CONDEMNING QANON AND REJECTING THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES IT PROMOTES, AND ASK FOR ITS IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION IN HOUSE RESOLUTION 1154, RESOLUTION CONDEMNING QANON AND REJECTING THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES IT PROMOTES

Pramila Jayapal

MR. SPEAKER, QANON IS A MOVEMENT PROMOTING A COLLECTION OF UNFOUNDED CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT HAVE SPREAD ON THE INTERNET OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. THESE CONSPIRACY THEORIES UNDERMINE PUBLIC TRUST IN OUR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, AND OUR ELECTION PROCESS. AND THAT IS WHY I AM PLEASED TO SUPPORT THIS IMPORTANT BIPARTISAN RESOLUTION BY REPRESENTATIVES MALINOWSKI AND RIGGLEMAN. QANON INITIALLY ALLEGED THAT PROMINENT AMERICANS ARE ENGAGED IN A SECRET PLOT TO CONTROL THE WORLD. WHILE USING THEIR POWER TO EXPLOIT CHILDREN. IT NOW EXTENDS TO A RANGE OF DANGEROUS CONSPIRACY THEORIES. THE F.B.I. HAS ASSESSED WITH HIGH CONFIDENCE THAT, QUOTE, FRINGE POLITICAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES, END QUOTE, INCLUDING QANON, AGAIN A QUOTE, VERY LIKELY TO MOTIVATE SOME DOMESTIC EXTREMISTS, WHOLELY OR IN PART TO ENGAGE IN CRIMINAL OR VIOLENT ACTIVITY AND THAT THESE CONSPIRACY THEORIES VERY LIKELY ENCOURAGED THE TARGETING OF SPECIFIC PEOPLE, PLACE, AND ORGANIZATIONS THEREBY INCREASING THE LIKELIHOOD OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THESE TARGETS. CLOSE QUOTE. AS THE MEMBERS MAY KNOW, THE RESOLUTION'S LEAD SPONSOR, REPRESENTATIVE MALINOWSKI, HAS HIMSELF FACED THREATS FROM QANON SUPPORTERS AFTER HE WAS FALSELY ACCUSED OF LOBBYING TO PROTECT SEXUAL PREDATORS. ACCORDING TO THE COMBATING TERRORISM CENTER AT THE WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY. AGAIN A QUOTE, QANON IS ARGUABLY NO LONGER SIMPLY A FRINGE CONSPIRACY THEORY BUT AN IDEOLOGY THAT HAS DEMONSTRATED ITS CAPACITY TO RADICALIZE, TO VIOLENCE INDIVIDUALS AT AN ALARMING SPEED. END QUOTE. FORTUNATELY, A GROWING NUMBER OF POLITICAL LEADERS RECOGNIZE THE THREAT THAT QANON POSES. AND THAT INCLUDES REPUBLICAN HOUSE MINORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY, WHO RECENTLY SAID THAT, QUOTE, THERE IS NO PLACE FOR QANON IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THE MALINOWSKI-RIGGLEMAN RESOLUTION DOES SEVERAL THINGS T CONDEMNS QANON AND REJECTS THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES IT PROMOTES. IT ENCOURAGES THE F.B.I. AND ALL FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN THEIR FOCUS ON PREVENTING VIOLENCE, THREATS, HARASSMENT, AND OTHER CRIMINAL ACTIVITY BY EXTREMISTS MOTIVATED BY FRINGE POLITICAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES. AND FINALLY, IT URGES ALL AMERICANS, REGARDLESS OF OUR BELIEFS OR PARTISAN ASILLATION, TO SEEK INFORMATION FROM AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES AND TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL DEBATE FROM A COMMON FACTUAL FOUNDATION. I WOULD HOPE THAT THESE ARE PRINCIPLES WE COULD ALL AGREE WITH ON A BIPARTISAN BASIS. I URGE ALL MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND I RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY TIME

>>10886671

Tom McClintock

MR. SPEAKER, I RISE IN STRONG SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION WHICH CONDEMNS AN EXTREMIST GROUP KNOWN AS QANON. I HAVE TO ADMIT I ONLY RECENTLY HEARD OF THIS GROUP AND DIDN'T KNOW ANY OF THE DETAILS OF THEIR BELIEFS OR TACTICS UNTIL THIS RESOLUTION WAS BROUGHT TO US. BUT FROM WHAT I HAVE READ THEY ARE A DELUSIONAL GROUP THAT BEGAN WITH AN INTERNET POST IN 2017. THEY HOLD THE BIZARRE BELIEF THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS INFESTED WITH SATANIC PEDOPHILES WHO ARE BUSY RUNNING A GLOBAL CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING RING WHEN THEY ARE NOT PLOTTING AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP. NOW, I'M TEMPTED TO SAY YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP, BUT OBVIOUSLY SOMEBODY DID MAKE THIS STUFF UP AND GIVEN THE REACH OF THE INTERNET IT IS APPARENTLY BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY SOME EXTREMISTS WHO ARE TURNING TO VIOLENCE. LEST IT GET OUT OF HAND, IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR THE HOUSE TO SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE ON BEHALF OF ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES ACROSS THIS GREAT NATION IN CONDEMNING QANON AND ITS CONSPIRACY THEORIES. IT SHOULD BE CLEAR TO EVERY MAN AND WOMAN OF GOOD WILL IN THIS COUNTRY THAT THIS GROUP SEEKS ONLY TO FURTHER ROYAL OUR ROIL OUR SOCIETY AND DIVIDE OUR CITIZENS ALONG LINES OF RACE, RELIGION, AND POLITICS. EVEN IN THIS HIGHLY POLARIZED POLITICAL CLIMATE, I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE ON THIS. BUT LET ME ASK US ALL TO DO SO WITHOUT ATTEMPTING TO SMEAR ANY PARTY OR CANDIDATE WITH THE RAMBINGS FROM THIS, THE LUNATIC FRINGE OF OUR SOCIETY. THAT TERM, LUNATIC FRINGE, WAS POP PARAGRAPHIZED POPLARIZED BY THEE DOOR ROOSEVELT. HE WROTE, QUOTE, THEN AMONG THE WISE AND HIGH-MINDED PEOPLE WHO IN SELF-RESPECTING AND GENUINE FASHION STRIVE EARNESTLY FOR PEACE. THERE ARE THE FOOLISH FANATICS ALWAYS TO BE FOUND IN SUCH A MOVEMENT AND ALWAYS DISCREDITING IT. THE MEN WHO FORMED THE LUNATIC FRINGE IN ALL REFORM MOVEMENTS. HE CONTINUED, AS I HAVE ALL SAID, THERE IS A LUNATIC FRINGE TO EVERY REFORM MOVEMENT. WE HAVE SEEN THAT BORN OUT IN THE TURN LANT PERIOD OF HISTORY WE NOW OCCUPY AND HOW WE DEAL WITH IT WILL DETERMINE WHETHER WE CAN CALM THE POLITICAL WATERS AND RESTORE PEACE AND TRANQUILITY TO OUR CITIES AND CIVIL DISCOURSE TO OUR CONVERSATIONS N THAT REGARD, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT Q AKNOB AND QANON AND THE LUNATIC FRINGE ON THE RIGHT THAN ANTIFA AND THE LUNATIC FRINGE ON LEFT SPEAK FOR THE LEFT. BOTH ARE POISONOUS TO OUR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND BOTH ARE DESTRUCTIVE OF WHAT LINCOLN CALLED, THE MISS PARTICULAR CHORDS OF MEMORY THAT SHOULD UNITE US AS FREE PEOPLE. AME TO VOICE MY HOPE THAT WE'LL SEE SIMILAR CONDEMNATIONS OF LUNATIC FRINGE THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN FREE REIN IN RECENT MONTHS TO VANDALIZE AND BURN SO MANY OF OUR TOWNS AND CITIES ACROSS AMERICA. QANON AND IT'S ALLIED GROUPS ARE REAL. BUT ANTIFA AND ITS ALLIED GROUPS ARE ALSO REAL. BOTH ARE DIRECT THREATS TO OUR DEMOCRACY BECAUSE BOTH THREATEN TO EMPLOY VIOLENCE FOR POLITICAL ENDS AND THAT IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF TERRORISM. NO FREE SOCIETY CAN LONG ENDURE IF THEIR ACTS OF VIOLENCE ARE EXCUSED, IGNORED, OR TOLERATED. LINCOLN SAID IT BEST, THERE IS NO GRIEVANCE THAT IS A FIT OBJECT FOR REDRESS BY MOB LAW. TO THAT I WOULD ADD THIS OBSERVATION. WITHOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT, THERE IS NO LAW. AND WITHOUT LAW, THERE IS NO CIVILIZATION. I WOULD EXPRESS THE FERVENT HOPE BEFORE WE ADJOURN WE WILL ENTERTAIN CONDEMNATIONS OF ALL GROUPS AND ALL SIDES THAT EMPLOY VIOLENCE FOR POLITICAL ENDS BY NAME. WEDNESDAY NIGHT THE RULES COMMITTEE REJECTED A MOTION ON A PARTY-LINE VOTE THAT WOULD HAVE BROUGHT TO THE FLOOR A RESOLUTION CONDEMNING ANTIFA AND ITS ALLIED GROUPS CONCURRENT WITH THIS RESOLUTION. THAT WOULD DEMONSTRATE THAT THIS HOUSE SPEAKS CLEARLY AND STANDS UNITED AGAINST ALL SUCH GROUPS THAT HAVE WROUGHT SUCH DIVISION AND DESTRUCTION IN OUR COMMUNITIES. THAT'S ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT WHEN WE SURVEY THE VIOLENCE PERPETRATED BY THE LUNATIC FRINGE IN PORTLAND, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND, LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO, NEW YORK CITY, WASHINGTON, D.C., LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. MINNEAPOLIS, AND EVEN KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT WHEN THE MAYORS OF THESE CITIES HAVE WITHHELD POLICE PROTECTION FROM THEIR OWN CITIZENS, LEAVING INNOCENT AND PEACEFUL SHOPKEEPERS AND RESIDENTS TO THE MERCY OF MOB LAW, AND WHEN PROSECUTORS HAVE REDUCE FUSED TO HOLD ACCOUNTABLE THOSE WHO HAVE PERPETRATED THIS VIOLENCE UPON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. . THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE TIME BEFORE THE ELECTION TO TAKE A STAND CLEARLY AND UNAMBIGUOUSLY AGAINST ALL POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND WITH ONE VOICE TO STAND WITH THE RULE OF LAW AND NOT WITH THE RULE OF THE MOB. IF WE CAN SPEAK TOGETHER ON THIS MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE, MAYBE WE CAN START TO FIND OUR WAY BACK TO OTHER FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE ALWAYS UNITED US AS A PEOPLE AND MADE OUR NATION AND LYNN KOL'S WORDS LYNNINCOLN'S WORDS, THE LAST BEST HOPE OF MANKIND. SO PLEASE DON'T SQUANDER THIS OPPORTUNITY TO RECLAIM THE LEGACY OUR FOREFATHERS LEFT US. I RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY TIME…

>>10886674

Tom Malinowski

MR. SPEAKER, IT'S ONE OF THE OLDEST LIES IN THE WORLD A BLOOD LIBEL. IT GOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THERE IS A POWERFUL SECRET GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO JUST HAPPEN, MANY OF THEM TO BE JEWISH, AND THEY'RE TRYING TO CONTROL THE WORLD AND FOR GOOD MEASURE, KIDNAPPING OUR CHILDREN. THIS IS THE CENTRAL CONSPIRACY THEER THEORY THAT QANON SPITS TODAY. IT'S CRAZY WE DON'T TAKE IT SERIOUSLY ENOUGH. THROUGHOUT HISTORY, CONSPIRACY THEORIES, JUST LIKE THIS ONE, HAVE FUELED PREJUDICE, TERRORISM, EVEN GENOCIDE. AND TODAY, SOCIAL MEDIA IS FANNING THE FLAMES. THEIR ALGORITHMS KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT US. WHAT WE SEARCH FOR ONLINE. OUR BUYIASES. AND THEY FEED US MORE EXTREME VERSIONS OF WHAT THEY THINK WE WANT SO WE ARE GLUED TO THE SCREENS, SEE MORE ADS. THAT IS WHAT IS CAUSING SO MANY AMERICANS TO FEAR AND HATE ONE ANOTHER. WHILE MANY EXTREMIST GROUPS ON THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT ARE RECRUITING FOLLOWERS ONLINE, NOTHING TODAY MATCHES THE SCALE OF QANON. NOTHING COMES CLOSE. ON FACEBOOK ALONE, KWAN O.J. PAGES AND QANON PAGES HAVE HAD PEOPLE UP TO THREE MILLION. THE MOST WIDELY SHARED MESSAGES IN THE COUNTRY ARE THOSE PROMOTED BY QANON. THE PHYSICAL THREAT IS ALSO REAL. THE F.B.I., AS WE HEARD, SAYS THAT POLITICAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES LIKE QANON HAS PEOPLE COMMITTING VIOLENCE. THE COMBATING TERRORISM CENTER AT WEST POINT SAID THEY RADICALIZED INDIVIDUALS ARE AT NUMEROUS SPEED AND THEY HAVE COMMITTED NUMEROUS VIOLENT ACTS IN THE PAST TWO YEARS. OUR GREATEST THREAT IS TO SOUR SOCIAL FABRIC. QANON IS LIKE A PILL THAT IMMUNIZES US BECAUSE REALITY. WHICH MILLIONS OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS ARE TAKING. IT DESTROYS TRUST IN GOVERNMENT, IN DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION, IN SCIENCE AND IN FACTS. MR. SPEAKER, THE RESOLUTION WE WILL PASS TODAY CATEGORICALLY CONDEMNS QANON. IT HAS AN EQUAL NUMBER OF REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC CO-SPONSORS. I WANT TO THANK THEM. REPRESENTATIVES RIGGLEMAN, CAN I SEEINGER, FITZPATRICK, LURIA. EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS GAIN VALIDATION FROM THE BELIEF THEY ARE MAKING INROADS INTO THE MAINSTREAM. IT'S IMPORTANT TO MAKE CLEAR WE ARE UNIFIED AGAINST THEM, BOTH PARTIES, NO HEDGING, NO WINKS AND NODS. NOW, THERE'S JUST ONE MORE POINT I WANT TO MAKE TODAY. THAT IS, WHEN WE VOTE FOR THIS RESOLUTION TODAY, AND I'M CONFIDENT WE WILL ALL FORVOTE FOR IT, WE NEED TO MEAN IT. HERE'S THE ONLY REFERENCE I WILL MAKE TO PARTISAN DIFFERENCES. IT IS AN OBJECTIVE FACT THAT THIS PARTICULAR GROUP OF EXTREMIST TODAY IDENTIFIES TO THE RIGHT. THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM. EVEN AS WE VOTE TO CONDEMN QANON THERE ARE POLITICAL OPERATIVES OUT THERE PUTTING OUT VIAL ATTACKS THAT DELIBERATELY PLAY TO THE PARANOID FEARS QANON PROMOTES. SOME PEOPLE MAY RATIONIZE THIS, OH, QANON, IT'S NOT THAT BAD. THESE FOLKS ARE JUST AGAINST SEX TRAFFICKING, WHICH IS A REAL THREAT. OR THAT THEY'RE JUST AGAINST THE DEEP STATE. HEY, SO IS PRESIDENT TRUMP. SOME MIGHT SAY THERE ARE CRAZY GROUPS ON THE LEFT TOO AND THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE. THIS RESOLUTION CONDEMNS THEM ALL. YOU KNOW WHAT, WHEN I CRITICIZE ANTIFA, AS I HAVE, I DON'T GET HALF A DOZEN DEATH THREATS IN ADA. ONLY ONE OF THESE THINGS, FOR – THREATS IN A DAY. ONLY ONE OF THESE THREATS IS CONSIDERED A TERRORIST GROUP BY THE F.B.I. ONLY ONE IS WINNING ELECTIONS. RATHER WHAT QANON IS. IT'S A CULT WHICH THE F.B.I. CONSIDERS A POTENTIAL TERRORIST THREAT AND IT HAS REAL GROWING POLITICAL POWER. SO IF YOU VOTE AGAINST FIRE TODAY, PLEASE DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE TOMORROW. DON'T BE RIGHTEOUS HERE TODAY AND THEN GO QANON LIGHT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. DON'T DO OR SAY ANYTHING TO FAN THE FLAMES FURTHER. MR. SPEAKER, AMERICA DESPERATELY NEEDS TO COME TOGETHER. CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE TEARING US APART. LET US PASS THIS RESOLUTION AND DO IT OVERWHELMINGLY AND WITH TRUE CONVICTION SO THAT WE CAN SAY CLEARLY WE HAVE ALL HAD ENOUGH. THANK YOU AND I YIELD BACK

>>10886690

Denver Riggleman

THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. BEFORE I BEGIN TODAY, I DO WANT TO EXTEND MY BEST WISHES TO PRESIDENT TRUMP AND MELANIA. OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH THEM AS THEY BATTLE COVID-19. I ALSO WANT TO THANK TOM MALINOWSKI FOR THE AMAZING DISCUSSIONS WE HAD GOING FORWARD ON THIS RESOLUTION. THE AMAZING PERSON TO WORK WITH. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK, MR. MALINOWSKI, AND EVERYONE ELSE. I DO RISE TODAY TO A AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT AND MOMENT OF RECKONING FOR OUR DISCOURSE. ECHOING ACROSS THE DARKEST CORNERS AND CAVERNS OF THE INTERNET HAS LED TO DIVISIVENESS AND ANGER. IT HAS EXTINGUISH THE LIGHT OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN THIS COUNTRY CALLED BY SO MANY A CITY ON THE HILL. WE CAN'T BE THIS BEACON OF HOPE THAT WE HAVE BEEN FOR SO LONG IF WE CAN'T ADDRESS THE MISTRUST THAT'S INVADED INVADED OUR POLITICIAN. THE RESOLUTION TODAY IS NOT A PANACEA BUT REQUESTS ABOUT OUR PURPOSE IN THIS AUGUST BODY, WILL WE STAND UP AND CONDEMN A DANGEROUS, DEHUMANIZING AND CONVOLUTED CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT THE F.B.I. ASSESSED WITH HIGH CONFIDENCE IS VERY LIKELY TO MOTIVATE SOME DOMESTIC EXTREMISTS EXTREMISTS WOLLY OR IN PART TO ENGAGE IN KRIBEL ACTIVITY IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY? WHEN WE CONDEMNED THE QANON CONSPIRACY THEORY WE KNEW WE COULD DRAW THE IRE OF THOSE THAT BELIEVE IN FANTASTICAL THEORIES. WE'RE CONDEMNING SOMETHING THAT'S A DANGER TO OUR POLITICAL DISCOURSE. QANON BELIEVERS HAVE ACCUSED ME OF BEING A ZIONIST ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNMENT, BEEN CALLED A TRAITOR, ACCOMPANIED BY THE PICTURE OF THE GALLOS, AND STATED I WAS PART OF A TARGET LIST. THE GROSS TESSING NATURE OF THE TWEET AND INSTAGRAM POSTS AND THE ANTI-SEMITIC TRIPE SHOULD CAUSE CONCERN FOR EVERYONE. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS ALL RIDICULOUS. MUCH LIKE THEIR THEORY. BUT THE DEATH THREATS TOM MALINOWSKI RECEIVED WERE A SURPRISE AND A SHOCK. THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR IS EASILY CONDEMNED, CONDEMNED BY ALL OF US HERE IN THIS CHAMBER TODAY. PUTTING ASIDE THE BIZARRE VIEWS OF QANON ADHERENCE, I CALL ON THIS BODY TO CONDEMN THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTIONS, ACTIONS THAT INCLUDE THREATENING THE LIFE OF MY FRIEND. TOM MALL COULD YOU SAY KEY TOM MALINOWSKI. PLANNING A BOMB IN THE ILLINOIS CAPITOL ROTUNDA TO MAKE AMERICANS AWARE OF THE THEORY. THE MURDER OF A MAN IN NEW YORK IN 2019 AND OTHER SUCH ACTIVITIES. QANON AND THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES IT PROMOTES ARE A DANGER AND THREAT THAT HAS NO PLACE IN OUR COUNTRY'S POLITICS. I CONDEMN THIS MOVEMENT. AND URGE ALL OF MY FELLOW MEMBERS TO JOIN ME IN TAKING THE STEP TO EXCLUDE THEM AND OTHER EXTREME CONSPIRACY THEORIES FROM THE NATIONAL DISCOURSE. WE TALK ABOUT THE FIRST AMENDMENT ALL THE TIME. IT IS ABSOLUTELY APPROPRIATE FOR THE MEMBERS OF THIS BODY TO USE THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO CALL OUT THOSE THAT ARE USING THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT GIFT, THAT FIRST AMENDMENT GIFT TO UNITED STATES CITIZENS TO ATTACK OTHER INDIVIDUALS. THIS NATION HAS PASSED THROUGH STRONGER STORMS THAN THIS. AND DEFINITELY IN THE PAST. WE WILL COME OUT STRONGER STILL. IT TAKES LEADERSHIP FROM THE TOP TO STAND UP AGAINST EXTREME IDEAS LIKE QANON. I CALL ON THIS HOUSE TO DO THAT TODAY. SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION. PASS IT. I AGREE WITH MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE, TOM MALINOWSKI, WE SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING WITH FIRE. I'VE BEEN IN THE INTELLIGENCE BUSINESS. I KNOW THE POWER OF INFORMATION OPERATIONS AND FALSE INFORMATION. AGAIN, LET'S PASS THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY TIME

>>10886721

>>10886743

David N. Cicilline

THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. I THANK THE GENTLELADY FOR YIELDING. MR. SPEAKER, ONE OF THE STAGES OF DEPROGRAMMING CULT MEMBERS IS TO POINT OUT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CULT'S IDEOLOGY AND REALITY. QANON IS A CULT. IN AN EFFORT TO REACH SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAS FALLING UNDER ITS CONTROL, LET ME PUT OUT FACTS. MASS SHOOTINGS ARE NOT SOMETHING SO THE GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE AWAY THEIR GUNS. JOHN F. KENNEDY DIED IN A TRAGIC AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT, HE'S NOT IN HIDING. NOR WILL HE BE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S RUNNINGMATE. AND PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT FIGHTING A SECRET WORK AGAINST A SATANIC CHILD MOLESTING NETWORK OF POLITICIANS. IT'S A SAD STATEMENT THAT DISCUSSING DISCUSSING SUCH ABSURDITIES IS OCCURRING IN THIS CHAMBER TODAY. BUT THE FACT IS THAT SOME HAVE PRAISED QANON AND ENCOURAGED THE GROWTH OF THIS CULT EVEN AS THE F.B.I. HAS LABELED IT A DOMESTIC TERROR THREAT. AND SADLY, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE WHITE HOUSE, AND EVEN SOME MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, QANON HAS MOVED FROM THE DARKEST CORNERS OF THE INTERNET INTO THE MAINSTREAM OF TODAY'S POLITICAL DISCOURSE. THIS NOVEMBER, THERE WILL BE 22 QANON OR INDIVIDUALS ON THE BALLOT FOR THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE WHO HAVE EITHER BEEN ENDORSED BY OR LENT CREDENCE TO QANON. THIS IS A THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND TO OUR DEMOCRACY AS A WHOLE. THIS MOVEMENT NEEDS TO BE CONDEMNED AND ITS FOLLOWERS NEED TO BE BROUGHT BACK TO REALITY. JUST AS WE WOULD DO WITH ANY OTHER CULT. AND SO I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUE, CONGRESSMAN MALINOWSKI, FOR HIS LEADERSHIP ON THIS RESOLUTION, FOR THE HARD WORK HE DID TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT THE CONDEMNATION OF THIS DANGEROUS CULT IS BIPARTISAN. AND I HOPE ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE WILL SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION SO WE CAN SEND A MESSAGE CLEARLY AND STRONGLY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THIS CULT IS DANGEROUS FOR OUR PUBLIC DISCOURSE, DANGEROUS FOR OUR DEMOCRACY, AND DANGEROUS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES. WITH THAT I YIELD BACK

Jan Schakowsky

THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. I RISE TODAY IN STRONG SUPPORT OF HOUSE RESOLUTION 1154 AND CALL ON ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES TO DENOUNCE THE DANGEROUS QANON CONSPIRACY THEORIES. YOU KNOW, QANON IS A NEW FRONT AND ON AN OLD WAR AND SPREADS THE MESSAGE. QANON FOLLOWERS ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS CONTROLLED BY A SECRET CABAL. AND THE F.B.I. LINKED THEM TO DOMESTIC TERROR AND CONSIDERS IT A CONTINUING TERRORIST THREAT. I WANT TO THANK TOM MALINOWSKI FOR LEADING THIS AND NOW FOR THE KIND OF MESSAGES THAT HE'S GETTING VERY, VERY FRIGHTENING. AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK MR. RIGGLEMAN SORRY AND ALL OF THE BIPARTISAN SPONSORS OF THIS LEGISLATION. JUST LAST WEEK, MY SUBCOMMITTEE HELD A HEARING ON HOW SOCIAL MEDIA, MAINSTREAM EXTREMISM, WHEN WE HEAR WHEN WE HEARD FROM OUR WITNESSES, IT WAS REALLY TERRIFYING. QANON AND OTHER EXTREME GROUPS HAVE THRIVED FOR YEARS ON THE INTERNET, RECRUITING MEMBERS, PROMOTING RACISM, DIVIDING OUR COMMUNITIES, AND PLOTTING ACTIONS OF VIOLENCE. . AS PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED BIG TECH AS PROSPERED AND PROVETTED. AT-GORE RHYTHMS THAT AMPLIFY PROFITS FOR PLATFORMS LIKE FACEBOOK AND YOUTUBE, TWITTER, ALSO AMPLIFY EXTREMISM THIS. WEEK FACEBOOK ANNOUNCED A BAN ON ADS THAT SUPPORT QANON. GOOD. BUT IT'S FAR TOO LITTLE AND FAR TOO LATE. FACEBOOK USED USERS WHO ARE IN QANON ASSOCIATED GROUPS WILL STILL BE ABLE TO SEE EXTREMIST CONTENT JUST FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD ON THEIR NEWS FEEDS. MOREOVER, FACEBOOK GROUPS PROMOTING ANTI-SEMITISM HAVE GROWN BY 27% IN THE PAST WEEK. CONGRESS NEEDS TO DENOUNCE RIGHT NOW THIS KIND OF HATE RHETORIC AND BIG TECH MUST HELP – MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR PROFITING ON THIS HATE. BEFORE I CLOSE, I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO STATE MY SUPPORT FOR HOUSE RESOLUTION 1153 AND THANK MS. JAYAPAL FOR LEADING THE EFFORT AND TO SPEAKER PELOSI AND MAJORITY LEADER HOYER FOR THEIRLE HELP ON THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU.

>>10886754

THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. THANK YOU TO THE GENTLELADY FOR YIELDING. I RISE TODAY TO URGE A YES VOTE, A UNANIMOUS YES VOTE ON MR. MALINOWSKI'S RESOLUTION. QUITE FRANKLY, I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I HAVE TO STAND ON THE FLOOR OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO ISSUE THESE REMARKS. EVERY ONE OF US HERE, EVERY ONE OF US HERE SWORE THE VERY OATH TO DEFEND OUR NATION FROM ENEMIES BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. AND QANON IS A DANGEROUS ENEMY. A DANGEROUS ENEMY LURKING RIGHT WITHIN OUR BORDERS THAT MUST BE FORCE FULLY AND AGAIN UNANIMOUSLY CONDEMNED. WHAT THEY PROPAGATE IS NOT REAL. THEIR BASELESS CONSPIRACY THEORIES, LIES, AND FEAR MONGERING ARE CREATING SOMETHING, HOWEVER, THAT IS VERY REAL. THAT IS DIVISION, IT IS HATE, AND IF LEFT UNADDRESSED, VIOLENCE AGAINST FELLOW AMERICANS. JUST THIS WEEK ALONE MY DEAR FRIEND, REPRESENTATIVE MALINOWSKI, HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS DEATH THREATS FOR SIMPLY CONDEMNING QANON. AND REPRESENTATIVE SPANBERGER, A FORMER C.I.A. OFFICER HAS BEEN LABELED A TERRORIST. AND HOW COULD WE FORGET REPRESENTATIVE SCALISE AND GIFFORDS, BOTH BEING SHOT WITHIN THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS BY DERANGED PEOPLE? EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE KNOWS THE VERY LIVES OF OUR COLLEAGUES ARE NOW AT RISK. SO WHO IS GOING TO SPEAK AGAINST IT? HAS HATE REALLY BECOME A PARTISAN ISSUE? IS REALITY UP FOR DEBATE? I APPLAUD MY FRIEND, MY DEAR FRIEND, REPRESENT REPRESENTATIVE RIGGLEMAN, WHO HAS SPOKEN VERY FORCEFULLY AND IMMEDIATELY AGAINST QANON. I KNOW OTHERS ARE FOLLOWING SUIT. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T, FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT, WHAT REASON COULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE TO REMAIN SILENT? MY FRIENDS, WE ARE ALL AMERICANS. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US. AND AMERICANS ARE LOOKING TO US RIGHT NOW. TO MODEL PRINCIPLELED, THOUGHTFUL, DECENT LEADERSHIP AT THIS INCREASINGLY FRAGILE TIME IN OUR HISTORY. AND HISTORY SHALL BE OUR JUDGE. I YIELD THE REMAINDER OF MY TIME.

Seth W. Moulton

THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. THE RESPONSE TO SEPTEMBER 11 PRESIDENT BUSH AND THIS CONGRESS SENT SOLDIERS AND MARINES LIKE MYSELF ACROSS THE OCEAN TO FIGHT AGAINST EXTREMISM. THE TERRORIST THAT IS WE FOUGHT AGAINST USED VIOLENCE TO ADVANCE THEIR POLITICAL AGENDAS. AND VIEWED LAWMAKERS HERE AS THEIR ENEMIES. QANON, THE PROUD PROYBOYS, AND OTHER EXTREMIST GROUPS THINK – PROUD BOYS, AND OTHER EXTREMIST GROUPS THINK AND OPERATE IN SIMILAR WAYS N THIS CASE WE DO NOT HAVE THE LUXURY, AMERICANS DO NOT HAVE THE LUXURY OF LOOKING ACROSS THE OCEAN AT THIS THREAT AND JUST HOPING AND PRAYING THAT IT DOESN'T COME HOME. MEMBERS OF THESE GROUPS ARE AMERICAN. POLITICIANS HAVE UNFORGIVEABLY EMBRACED THEM. SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS LEGITIMATIZE THEM TO AN UNWITTING PUBLIC. WELL, I HAVE HAD ENOUGH. QANON FOLLOWERS LIKE TO SAY IN THEIR VAGUE OMINOUS RAMBLINGS THAT NO ONE CAN STOP WHAT IS COMING. THAT'S WRONG. WE CAN. AND WE WILL. DO NOT LET THE UNFORGIVABLE MAINSTREAM SUPPORT FOR THESE GROUPS RAISE DOUBTS ABOUT OUR NATION'S RESOLVE IN THIS FIGHT. IN THIS FIGHT AGAINST EXTREMISM THAT WE WILL STOP WHAT IS COMING AND THEN WE WILL BUILD A SAFER, STRONGER AMERICA. MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD BACK

>>10886779

Tom McClintock

THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. I'LL CLOSE AS I BEGAN. EXTREMIST GROUPS ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT THAT ADVOCATE VIOLENCE AS A METHOD OF ACHIEVING POLITICAL GOALS THREATEN THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF OUR DEMOCRACY AND I FULLY SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND ITS DENUNCIATION OF ONE SUCH GROUP CALLED QANON. BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN SEE WITH THEIR OWN EYES WHERE THE VIOLENCE ON OUR STREETS IS COMING FROM. I DEEPLY REGRET THAT THE MAJORITY IS NOT WILLING TO CALL OUT BY NAME SUCH GROUPS AS ANTIFA OR TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SUCH EVIL FORCES EVEN EXIST. WE MUST SPEAK OUT TOGETHER AGAINST ALL SUCH GROUPS. I'M DEEPLY TROUBLED THAT FOR SOME REASON WE CANNOT. WE NEED TO KNOW WHO IS FUNDING THESE GROUPS. WE CAN ALREADY SEE WITH OUR OWN IDENTIFIES WHO IS ENCOURAGE – EYES WHO IS ENCOURAGING THEM. WE CAN SEE WITH OUR OWN EYES WHOSE MAYORS HAVE DELIBERATELY WITHHELD POLICE PROTECTION FROM THEIR CITIZENS AS THESE EXTREMIST DRIVEN MOBS RUN RAMPANT IN OUR COMMUNITIES. WE CAN SEE WITH OUR OWN EYES THOSE POLITICIANS CALLING FOR DEFUNDING POLICE DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE THE ONLY MEANS OF DEFENSE THAT OUR CITIZENS HAVE. WE CAN SEE WITH OUR OWN EYES THOSE PROSECUTORS WHO HAVE REFUSED TO HOLD ACCOUNTABLE THOSE WHO PERPETRATE VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND WHO, INSTEAD, PROSECUTE CITIZENS WHO ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO DEFEND THEMSELVES. SO I'M PLEASED TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION. BUT IT IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR A CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS STAND AGAINST ALL POLITICAL EXTREMISM AND VIOLENCE THAT THIS HOUSE FOR SOME REASON REFUSES TO TAKE. I YIELD BACK

Pramila Jayapal

MR. SPEAKER, IN CLOSING, LET ME START BY THANKING MR. MALINOWSKI AND MR. RIGGLEMAN FOR THIS BIPARTISAN RESOLUTION. SUCH AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT. AND I DO HOPE ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES IN THIS CHAMBER VOTE FOR THE RESOLUTION. I AM TROUBLED THAT SOME MIGHT TRY TO TAKE THIS BIPARTISAN RESOLUTION AND INTRODUCE OTHER ASPECTS THAT INCLUDE CALLING OUT CITIES LIKE MINE, THE CITY OF SEATTLE, AND OTHER BASELESS COMMENTS. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO RETURN TO THE CONTEXT OF THIS RESOLUTION. AND THE CONTEXT IS THAT IT IS SAD THAT IN THE YEAR 2020 A BASELESS ANTI-SEMITIC CONSPIRACY THEORY HAS INFECTED THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF OUR GREAT DEMOCRACY. THIS BODY SHOULD NOT BE GIVING SUCH AN UNHINGED INTERNET HOAX THE TIME OF DAY. FRANKLY, IT IS SAD THAT IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS THE HOUSE HAS HAD TO PASS SEVERAL RESOLUTIONS, INCLUDING A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER AFTER THIS YEAR'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO PUBLICLY REINFORCE DEMOCRATIC CUSTOMS AND NEW ORLEANS NORMS THAT UNTIL RECENTLY WHY BEYOND QUESTION. BUT CIRCUMSTANCES YET AGAIN REQUIRE THIS BODY TO MAKE A STATEMENT. THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, THIS INTERNET HOAX HAS BECOME SO WIDESPREAD THAT IT IS INSPIRED IT HAS INSPIRED THREATS AND EVEN ACTS OF VIOLENCE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. INCLUDING AGAINST OUR MEMBERS, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE. UNFORTUNATELY, RATHER THAN CONDEMN THIS HOAX RHETORIC THAT COMES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE IS INSTEAD GIVING COMFORT TO QANON FOLLOWERS AND CREDENCE TO THEIR BELIEF AND FABRICATED AND FANTASTICAL THEORIES. UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES IT IS SO GOOD TO BE DOING A BIPARTISAN RESOLUTION IN THIS HOUSE. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAKE IT CLEAR TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT QANON IS A HOAX AND THAT WE ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY CONDEMN THE VIOLENCE PERPETRATED BY ITS ADHERENCE. I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE YES. I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY TIME